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stationer's shop. This would not do; no one took any notice of it, or seemed 

 at all acquainted with the history of that worthy man. So I took the three 

 Numbers of the Gardener's Alagazhne for May, August, and November, and 

 commenced a canvass. The delay in collecting, however, was very great : I 

 had to leave the Numbers for a night or two with almost every person who 

 subscribed, in order that they might become acquainted with Douglas's 

 history. I am now happy to have it in my power to hand you the trifling 

 sum of 4/. 7^. towards the memory of one who stands high in my estimation. 

 The following is a list of subscribers' names," &c. &c. [This list will be 

 given, with that of all the other subscribers, in a future Number.] 



His Grace the Duke of Bedford, with that liberality and public spirit which 

 always distinguish him, has not only subscribed to the monument which is to be 

 erected to Douglas in his native village, but expresses a hope that, at some 

 future daj% a monument more worthy of forming a national record of the 

 merits of this intrepid but unfortunate collector may be erected, either in the 

 Chiswick Gardens, or in the cemetery at Kensall Green. In this hope we cor- 

 dially concur; and we should like to see a second subscription set on foot among 

 the employers of gardeners, as the present one has been chiefly confined to gar- 

 deners themselves, for this purpose; the monument, in that case, being placed 

 in a wood or garden of Douglas's introductions. In the mean time, we think, 

 for the reasons stated in our preceding Volume (p. 386.), that what may be 

 called the gardeners' monument to Douglas may be most appropriately and 

 usefully placed in his native village. The time may probably come when a 

 temple for the busts of British worthies will be erected in the metropolis ; 

 in which the bust of Douglas might appropriately claim a place among the 

 British naturalists. J'bies Douglas;'/, however, will make his name known 

 amongst the profession to which he belonged better than a hundred temples, 



We ought not to omit to mention here, that very great exertions have 

 been made by many nurserymen and others, most of whom have sent their 

 subscriptions direct to the treasurer at Perth ; and Messrs. Pope and Sons, 

 of Handsworth, near Birmingham, have raised and sent to us no less a sum 

 than 8/. We intend to publish a complete list of subscribers, and an engrav- 

 ing of the monument, as soon as the latter is erected, and the whole affair 

 completed. 



Linncsan Society. — J)i?c, 6. 1836. Flowering specimens of the sea-side 

 grape (Coccoloba pubescens), from the Botanic Garden, Cambridge, were 

 exhibited. Mr. Lambert exhibited two sorts of the Peruvian grain called 

 quinoa, from his garden at Boyton House, Wilts ; one of which, now termed 

 black quinoa, he regards as a distinct species, and proposes to call it Cheno- 

 podium altissirnum ; the stems of it exhibited to the meeting being upwards 

 of 12 ft. in height. Mr. Ward exhibited specimens of two remarkable para- 

 sitic plants ; one, the Aphyteia hydnora, from the Cape of Good Hope, and 

 related to the gigantic rafHesia of the Indian Islands ; the other, the Cyno- 

 morium cocc'neum, from the vicinity of Mount Sinai, where it is eaten by the 

 natives. The last is also found in Malta, Sicily, and Barbary; where, how- 

 ever, the plant is extremely local. A notice by the chairman was read on the 

 culture of the quinoa in Upper Peru, where, on the high plains, at an eleva- 

 tion of 13,000 ft. above the level of the sea, scarcely any other grain is 

 grown ; though, since the introduction of corn ft-om Europe, the cultivation 

 of the quinoa has greatly diminished in Lower Peru and Chih". Read, also, 

 descriptions of two species of the natural order Confferaj, by Professor Don, 

 librarian to the Linnaean Society. One of these is the Pinus brutia, a native 

 of Brutium or Calaliria, and nearly related to the maritime pine of Greece : 

 the other is the Araucdria Cunninghami. {Literary Gazette, Dec. 10.) In 

 the Penny Cyclopcedia, under the article Chenopodiacea2, vol. vii. p. 39., it is 

 stated that the seeds of quinoa " are ripened in England, and may now be pur- 

 chased at any of the seed shops; but the plant can hardly be considered worth 

 the attempt at cultivating it where any thing else will grow." 



Horticultural Society's Garden. — Jan. II. Chimonanthus frfigrans and 



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